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N-PETERS, PHOTCLUTHOGMPMER, WASHINGTON, D. Cv

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. SMITH AND HENDRIOK B. WILKINS, OF NICHOLSON, PA.

IM'PROVEMENT IN COMBINED STOVE POKERS AND TONGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No 1 74,645, dated March 14, 1876; application filed December 29, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY A. SMITH and HENDRIOK B. WILKINs, of Nicholson,'ii1 the county of Wyoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Combined Stove Poker and Tongs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of our inven tion, showing the jaw open; and Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the jaw closed.

Similar letters of reference in the accompanyin g drawings denote the same parts.

Our invention has for its object to provide for general use a combined fire poker and tongs; and it consists in pivoting a blade or jaw of peculiar construction to an ordinary fire-poker, as I will now proceed to describe.

In the drawings, A represents a fire-poker, having a toe or bent end, a, and the usual wooden handle, a. B is a jaw or blade, pivoted to the poker at b, and having a socket or handle, 0, bymeans of which the jaw can be opened or closed. When the jaw B is closed it fits snugly against the poker, and does not in the least affect the efficient operation of the latter.

When it is desired to use the device as a pair of tongs, the operator grasps the handle a, inserts his thumb in the socket U, and opens and closes the jaw B with ease.

The socket O, besides serving as a means for operating the jaw B, acts as a guard to the hand when the device is used as a poker.

The whole is very simple and compact, and can be manufactured at a small expense.

We claim as our invention The combined poker and tongs herein described, consisting of the two blades A a B, pivoted together, one of them having the thumb-socket 0, arranged at right angles to the line of the blade, and the other having the straight handle a, extending beyond the socket 0.

HENRY A. SMITH. HENDRIGK B. WILKINS.

Witnesses:

T. J. CHASE, E. F. J oHNsoN. 

